Too Civil by Half mb-code 1645858 taffeta and velvet

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'John Rosedale

Cars lined up for the start of a race

'Fashionable Portraits'

On a wall close by a poster reads Various feats of horsemanship performed this evening by the famous Sampson

Too Civil by Half mb-code 1645858 taffeta and velvet'Too Civil by Half', 1862. Dressed as matrons, the Conservatives Lord Derby (with the glasses) and Disraeli have come to pay a social call on the Liberal Prime Minister, Palmerston. This illustrates the amount of social calling, and the conventions surrounding the practice, that ladies of the middle and upper classes would do. Palmerston is not at all keen that the visit should be repeated as he is determined that they the Conservatives should not get